2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Syntactic Investigation of the Nominal Periphery in Japanese and Chinese
| Project/Area Number |
22520398
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Linguistics
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| Research Institution | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
OCHI MASAO 大阪大学, 言語文化研究科(研究院), 准教授 (50324835)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010-04-01 – 2013-03-31
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| Keywords | 比較統語論 / 名詞句 / 類別詞 / 数量詞遊離 / 複数形態素 |
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| Research Abstract |
It has been debated in the field of theoretical linguistics (most notably in generative grammar) whether nominal arguments have similar or distinct syntactic realizations cross-linguistically. This study aimed to contribute to this important issue through the investigation of the left/right periphery of the nominal argument in classifier languages such as Japanese and Chinese. As a result of the investigation, we came to the conclusion that nominal arguments in those classifier languages do project (optional) functional structures on top of the lexical domain (i.e., NP). This in turn led us to the view that the so-called Nominal Mapping Parameter cannot be maintained in its strongest form.
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